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Cecilia Vega was born on January 7, 1977 in San Francisco, California. Vega works as an American journalist and contributes to ABC News as a senior White House correspondent.

Journalism Career

Before stepping into the world of broadcast journalism, she was working in print journalism. One of her biggest jobs was reporting for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Before Cecilia joined ABC News, she was working at the KGO-TV station in San Francisco. She covered a large number of stories in the area for over three years when she worked for the station.

She started to work at ABC News in 2011 as a correspondent based in Los Angeles. From the first day she joined ABC News, she was able to cover many stories including domestic and interational stories. Some of the assignments she worked on included Japan where she was covering the Fukushima power plant incident, the selection of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope">Pope</a> in Rome, and the Olympics in London. She was able to go to the Arctic’s bottom in a submarine while she encountered whales in Gulf of California. She interviewed leading newsmakers such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Peña_Nieto">Enrique Pena Nieto</a>, the President of Mexico and also high profile celebrites like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone">Sylvester Stallone</a>. She was the one that got a chance to  cover the inauguration of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">Barrack Obama</a> for ABC News. Other stories that she covered included the Ebola outbreak case in USA, Sony falling prey to computer Hacking, allegations against <a href="/biography/bill-cosby">Bill Cosby</a> and the midterm election of 2014.

She is now a senior national <a href="/biography/cecilia-vega">correspondent</a> and she works together with <a href="/biography/tom-llamas">Tom Llamas</a> for the weekend editions for ABC World News Tonight.

Hurricane Katrina Controversy

In a story she wrote for <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/As-bodies-recovered-reporters-are-told-no-2609387.php">the San Francisco Gate, Cecilia spoke about how the US army was trying prevent the media from reporting on the dead victims of Hurricane Katina</a> “A long caravan of white vans led by an Army humvee rolled Monday through New Orleans' Bywater district, a poor, mostly black neighborhood, northeast of the French Quarter. Recovery team members wearing white protective suits and black boots stopped at houses with spray painted markings on the doors designating there were dead bodies inside. Outside one house on Kentucky Street, a member of the Army 82nd Airborne Division summoned a reporter and photographer standing nearby and told them that if they took pictures or wrote a story about the body recovery process, he would take away their press credentials and kick them out of the state.”

In 2005, CNN had taken the Bush Adminstration to court and made them agree that they would not prevent the media for reporting on efforts to recover bodies during Hurricane Katrina. Cecilia uncovered the fact that the government was not keeping their promise, “But on Monday, in the Bywater district, that assurance wasn't being followed. The 82nd Airborne soldier told reporters the Army had a policy that requires media to be 300 meters -- more than three football fields in length -- away from the scene of body recoveries in New Orleans. If reporters wrote stories or took pictures of body recoveries, they would be reported and face consequences, he said, including a loss of access for up-close coverage of certain military operations. Later Monday, the recovery team collected a body from a green house on St. Anthony Street in nearby Seventh Ward. The dead man, who was slipped into a black body bag and carried out to one of the white vans, had been lying alone on the living room floor for nearly two weeks, neighbors said.”

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Russian Probe Memo

On Feburary 2018, Cecilia covered the breaking story that a GOP memo implied that the FBI and Department of Justice abused their government surveillance powers and signaled political bias during the Russia Probe.

Cecilia got a statement from Intelligence Committee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Nunes">chairman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Nunes">Devin Nunes</a> who said, "The Committee has discovered serious violations of the public trust, and the American people have a right to know when officials in crucial institutions are abusing their authority for political purposes,"

<a href="https://abc11.com/3023225/">In a report for ABC News, Cecilia wrote about the details of the memo</a>, “The memo, written by Republican staff on the House Intelligence Committee, deals entirely with the process that led to the court-approved surveillance of former Trump Campaign adviser Carter Page, who authorities suspected at the time of being a Russian agent. It alleges the Justice Department requested and received a FISA surveillance warrant of Page in October 2016 because of information included in an infamous dossier written by former British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele">intelligence officer</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele">Christopher Steele</a>, who was employed by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS that received funding for the project, in part, from the Democratic National Committee and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>'s presidential campaign.

According to the memo, then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McCabe">Deputy</a> FBI <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McCabe">Director</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McCabe">Andrew McCabe</a> told the Intel Committee "no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele">Steele</a> dossier information." It also alleges the Democratic-funded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele">Steele</a> dossier formed "an essential part" of the Carter Page FISA application, but DOJ officials did not disclose to the court that the dossier was funded by Democrats in the midst of a presidential campaign. It also alleges the Democratic-funded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele">Steele</a> dossier formed "an essential part" of the Carter Page FISA application, but DOJ officials did not disclose to the court that the dossier was funded by Democrats in the midThe FISA application also allegedly cited a Yahoo article written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Isikoff">Michael Isikoff</a> to corroborate the information in the dossier about Carter Page. The memo alleges <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Isikoff">Isikoff</a>'s source for that information was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele">Christopher Steele.st</a> of a presidential campaign.”

Awards

Cecilia Vega has been given many awards, she was a <a href="/biography/cecilia-vega">member</a> of the KGO-TV news team that was given an Emmy Award in 2010. The Emmy was awarded for interviewing a person who had witnessed the attack to a student in a high school homecoming dance.

She got awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, Hearst Corporation, East Bay Press Club and The New York Times.

Personal Life

Cecilia Vega is a married <a href="/biography/cecilia-vega">woman</a> and her husband is named Ricardo Jimenez. Ricardo is a highway patrol officer in California. He was praised when he pulled an intoxicated man to safety, away from the edge of the Bay Bridge’s. He got Meritorious Achievement Award from the Golden Gate Division Chief, Paul Frontana. He is a graduate of Loyola University and was a member of the Latin American Student Organization.

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